Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.